US-Islamic World Forum
I regularly go to Tikkun Magazine to read the articles and links they often post. I came across this article that Tikkun linked from "openDemocracy" about America and Islam. It's interesting to read. I offer no comment or opinion.
Zvonimir Zelic reports on the fourth US-Islamic World Forum:
The middle east is changing. Inept, autocratic secularism is on the run and strident, populist Islamism is on the rise. Across the region, long-disempowered constituencies are finding their voice and demanding an end to repression, occupation, corruption and nepotism. In two key nations, Palestine and Iraq, Islamists have taken power through the ballot-box. Shocked into action by 9/11 and swept along on a surge of neo-conservative conviction, the United States – for so long an unquestioning supporter of Arab authoritarianism – has suddenly and unexpectedly found itself in the paradoxical position of ideological ally to the prospective Islamist democrats.
Against this backdrop, the fourth US-Islamic World Forum convened on 18-20 February 2006 in the plush halls of Qatar's Ritz Carlton hotel, a marble megalith standing curiously isolated from the enormous construction site that is downtown Doha. Participants in the event, which was organised by Washington's influential Brookings Institution, came from a relatively broad geographical and professional spread, with American policy gurus and CEOs sharing floor-space with Pakistani Islamists, Palestinian civil-society activists and other prominent Muslim figures from Senegal to Indonesia. Appropriately, the forum's professed premise was to serve both as "a convening body and a catalyst for positive action", with an emphasis on practicable action rather than dialogue for the sake of it.
To read the rest, you may click here.
Zvonimir Zelic reports on the fourth US-Islamic World Forum:
The middle east is changing. Inept, autocratic secularism is on the run and strident, populist Islamism is on the rise. Across the region, long-disempowered constituencies are finding their voice and demanding an end to repression, occupation, corruption and nepotism. In two key nations, Palestine and Iraq, Islamists have taken power through the ballot-box. Shocked into action by 9/11 and swept along on a surge of neo-conservative conviction, the United States – for so long an unquestioning supporter of Arab authoritarianism – has suddenly and unexpectedly found itself in the paradoxical position of ideological ally to the prospective Islamist democrats.
Against this backdrop, the fourth US-Islamic World Forum convened on 18-20 February 2006 in the plush halls of Qatar's Ritz Carlton hotel, a marble megalith standing curiously isolated from the enormous construction site that is downtown Doha. Participants in the event, which was organised by Washington's influential Brookings Institution, came from a relatively broad geographical and professional spread, with American policy gurus and CEOs sharing floor-space with Pakistani Islamists, Palestinian civil-society activists and other prominent Muslim figures from Senegal to Indonesia. Appropriately, the forum's professed premise was to serve both as "a convening body and a catalyst for positive action", with an emphasis on practicable action rather than dialogue for the sake of it.
To read the rest, you may click here.
posted by fromclay at 3/02/2006 01:48:00 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home